Happy New Year! We’re bringing it in with the long-awaited announcement of our newest translation – Tales of Destiny (PS2) Director’s Cut! It’s a joint project with Phantasian Productions!
People have been speculating for months, but we are indeed working on ToDr. Despite what some believed, Cless and I have been on good terms in spite of Tales of Phantasia (mostly because he’s very forgiving). Lately I’ve really been regretting Tales of Phantasia and all the drama that came of it. I didn’t have the skills that I needed and I really wish I hadn’t stepped on many of the toes that I did. I worked on Phantasia because I loved it, but still, it was too soon for me to attempt a project of that magnitude on my own. I made a lot of mistakes and a lot of claims that I couldn’t live up to. I disappointed some people and I realize that some still worry about my translations. My point is that I’m thrilled to be working with Cless as well as with gogs, Kajitani-Eizan and Carnivol. The three of them have always been the first to tell me when they think I’ve slipped up and there are few people I trust more when it comes to editing. With their help and Cless’ experience working with the PS2, I’m confident that this patch will be one that everyone will love.
As most of you know, this project has been going on behind the scenes for months now. However, Phantasian Productions has been putting most of their time into Tales of Phantasia just as Kingcom and I have been focused on Innocence. From the beginning, Cless and I agreed that Destiny wouldn’t take priority over other projects. Now that’s it has been announced, I expect it to speed up a little bit. The translation is all that is really holding us back from a menu patch, so it really shouldn’t be far off.
Of course, neither Cless nor I like to do things halfway, so our intention from the beginning has been a full translation. The plan is to release the menu patch first and then begin work on the story. The translation will retain many of the original (PSX) Destiny localized terms. Expect to see many of the same ones in the translation (with the exception of some names like Johnny, Mighty Kongman, and Woodrow). We hope that fans of both the original translation and the Japanese text will be able to enjoy this translation.
So happy new year from Absolute Zero and Phantasian Productions! We hope that this coming year will be one of the best for Tales fans and ask for your continued support.
Be sure to check Phantasian Productions for more images and Cless’ announcement message! And to celebrate the occasion, I made myself a new banner. ^_^
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thank youuu…
good luck in translating :p
1. Isn’t Phantasia already in english?
2. How would I go about playing this anyway? PS2 emulators aren’t known for speed. I have a Athlon 64 x2 5200+ overclocked to 3 GH/z, a 9800 gt stock clocked, a 9500 gt for phsyX and 4 gigs of ram clocked at 8xx something (has to do with am2+ sockets and shit) and I still don’t think I can run PS2 games at full speed, even though I can get 20 FPS on Crysis max settigns no AA.
YES
Most. Awaited. Project. Of. The. Year.
Screw whatever else gets started from now on, I only need THIS. *almost crying*
Awesome doesn’t begin to describe my thoughts on this. I don’t care how long I wait for this, as long as it comes out. I must have this now! XD
Happy new year, and you guys are awesome,
I didn’t expect PP to be the “other” group.
KORE GA MIRAI O TAKUSU EIGOU NO AISATSU DAAA
HA! PPY! NEW! YEAR! 200099999999!!!!11111
w00t! Awesome New Year, uhhhhhhhh….. information! woo! awesome, oh well =/ Happy New Year. =D
Happy New Year.
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Yep.
i screamed like a little girl when i saw this man i looking toward the new year now
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! *dies*
What a great New Year! *_* ToD is my favourite Tales! Thank Youuuu! *_*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Wonderful news! Thank you very much!
As soon as I saw this I nearly fainted, you guys are awesome!!! its a shame I’m not sure how I would play this
Wow
ToD DC *_*
HELL YES! ToD DC is one of my favorite games! I can’t wait to play it in english!
Happy new year and good luck with this AWESOME project!
Have a great new year guys and good luck on this project. Seems you made some progess already on the menu.
I kinda hoped you’d do ToD2 or ToR but ToDr is still a great title!
Awesome!!!
the first time I played ToD I was really young, and english is not my first language, so I couldn’t aprecciate it the way it deserved, I’m really happy that I’ll be able to do so with this enhanced version ^^
thanks a lot guys, any news on a Tales of game is great news to me ^^ (even more if it’s a translation project)
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There’s also a Tales of Destiny 2 for the PSP, but it was released only in japan just like the ps2 version.
Is it possible that it can be translated with the same files as the ones on the ps2?
IIRC, ToD2 PSP had a new compression scheme Cless isn’t able to crack at the moment (due to needing to compress stuff to fit it on the UMD).
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and what about us non DCers… I’v bought the Original PS2 tod….
This cool but how much are you finished tales of innocence?
Finaly *——–*
Happy new year through! ^^ You are the hero of all the Tales fans out there!
Also, please don’t belittle yourself and your work: you have fully proven your worth and your love for this series with the ToP patch and with the upcoming Innocence localization, and believe me when I say that there are many Tales fans out there that follow your blog on a daily basis and look forward to your projects for the remarkable standard you have set.
BEST NOTICE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That only means only thing to me:
ABSOLUTE ZERO + PHANTASIAN PRODUCTIONS= EPIC WIN!!!one11!!one!!!!!!1111!!!11!!!
Now we have Tales of Innocence, Destiny 2 and now…TODrDC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELL YEAH!!! you guys, are the best!!! i hope this great project sees someday the light, then i would die in peace! haha!
Happy New Year all of the people i really like your posts i want to have time for fun this blogs really like it bravo this is the most awaited year of my life…..
As Magnvs said, never belittle your work. Your ToP translation made loads of people happy and I am be looking forward to all of Absolute Zero’s projects.
Come on you guys have to STOP!!This is getting ridiculous! A while ago, i picked up ToP, ready to go at it with a guide, but found out y’all were working on a patch so i waited for it(loved it btw, do not belittle your work, it was good). two months ago i got a quarter through Innocence before i found out the same thing, okay, fair enough i should have checked. A week ago i saw the test y’all did with Hearts and almost screamed as i thought it was your next, turns out there was nothing to worry about. And now, with Destiny coming in the main you guys pull this stunt. Sigh, i just started both rebirth and Destiny two last week(yeah i know i should not, but they both beckoned and now i am forced to play them at the same time), i hope you guys have no designs on those as i will then go crazy if you do, but since i have yet to play hearts… /Semi-serious diatribe
But really guys, keep up the good work.
*mail not main
Innocence just moved back a little on my most wanted list
WOWWWWWW! Love you guys, this must be a dream come true!
*_* Great News !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You rocks guys !!
Wow, best. New year’s firt message. EVER!
I still think you should first finish Innocence and then concentrate on Destiny DC, but do as you please, great sir! I hope everything goes alright, keep up the good work… FOREVER! Or… for as long as you want. Yeah.
Anyway, you are doing a great work, keep it up!
Love you guys.
It’s great that you’re working on a new tales.
Although I would’ve hoped a new project would be ToR or ToDII.
But if you guys are working on the ps2 it shouldn’t be long before we hear an announcement about either,right?
anyways happy new year, and I hope to see the ToI patch soon ^_^
Just a question, will this patch be available only for emulator, or will there be a way to patch directly on the CD and make it run on a PS2?
@Jonathan: You’ll need to have either a modchip’D PS2, Swap Magic, or an HD Loader. If you’re doing the first two, you’ll need to burn the patched game on a recordable DVD. For the last one, AFAIK, you just install it on the HD.
Oh this is lovely. I’ll wait forever as long as I get a chance to play this.
Oh, I am so happy! This is just too funny and too good to be true. I just played the original US PSX version about a week ago. I had half-heartedly picked it up while waiting until I could replace my Xbox 360′s fan with a quieter one, so I could play ToVesperia without hearing “GRRRROOOWWW!!!” in the background. I got addicted to Destiny and almost literally could not put it down until I beat it in the span of three days. I just fell in love with the game.
I’m so excited for Destiny DC translation patch. Skits, fully voiced, lower encounter rate, and in English, oh my! I’m glad you’ve decided to keep the original names, too. I look forward to it. I know you will do well.
Ok I have a question. Say that for some reason Bandai-Namco decide to localise this in the the US, would that mean that you’ll drop the project? I want to buy this but I don’t want to spend around £50 only to find out that it has been dropped and feel like I have wasted money.
I know that I can always just learn japanese, but that will take a while.
Yes, if this game is announced for localization, it will be dropped immediately.
I think that it will rain cows first than namco trews any PS2 tales to USA.
Well it is good that you would do that. I should be happy considering I would still be able too play it in english…well there is always ebay to sell the japanese if they did localise it.
I guess I no longer have a problem then.
Good luck with these projects!
OMG yeah you are F!@#% awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 this its my favorite RPG from all the times!!!!!!!!!! thank you absolute zero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you’re really A godsend for us Tales fans who eagerly waiting to understand tales games that didn’t make it into the US
I support you all 120%, good luck.
REMAKE!! REMAKE!! REMAKE!!
Thanks Absolute Zero and Phantasian productions!!
First of all, don’t start saying bad things about your work on your ToP’s patch. I already played it and though it may contains some mistakes, what you did was great and I’m sure that everyone agrees with me. You’re magnificent, the Phantasian Production does wonder, and together you both will make even greater things. Keep up the good work guys, oh, and happy new year.
Yeah i loved the TOPSX translation that you did guys, you gaved us the chance to play at last the best TOP version EVER in english!!! to me it was like a dream to have played it! so dont say nothing bad about your translation. It KICKS ASS!! like the Innocence one , that it has to be awesome too!
Could someone send me the link The ToI patch? I can’t seem to find it in this webbie :3 Mail: Yuuto94@hotmail.com thx alot xD
I’m absolutely not exaggerating when I say I’m probably one of the happiest fans out there to hear that you’re working on ToD. I’ve been a huge fan of it for years, despite never having the chance to actually play it. Thank you so much for announcing this project, and I’ll patiently wait for the day it is finished in the future.
Liooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon
Awesome